Hans Knirsch (September 14, 1877 – December 6, 1933) was a Moravian activist for Austrian National Socialism who, after the breakup of the Austrian Hungarian Empire led the original mother party in Czechoslovakia, at that time in Bohemia called the Sudeten German National Socialist Party. With Rudolf Jung and Hans Krebs, he was one of the original core of National Socialists that remained in the Nazi Party after 1933. ³ September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Moravia (Czech: Morava) is the eastern part of the Czech Republic. ... Austrian National Socialism was a Pan-Germanic movement that was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Bohemia is also a place in the State of United States of America: see Bohemia, New York. ... The Sudetendeutsche nationalsozialistische Partei or Sudeten German National Socialist Party was created when the new state of Czechoslovakia outlawed the DNSAP, the German National Socialist Workers Party. At the end of WWI, the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke up into its constituent nation states, and the new Czech-dominated government considered... Rudolf Jung (April 16, 1882 - December 11, 1945) was an instrumental force and agitator of Austrian National Socialism and, later on, became a member of the daughter party German Nazi Party. ... Hans Krebs was a German editor and Nazi party member. ...

Bio

Hans Knirsch became a Geschäftsführer, a managing leader, of the Mährisch-Trübauer Verband in 1901. He published an appeal which extolled the political unification of all Germans into one state, der alte Sehnsuchstraum der deutschen Demokraten ("the old nostalgic dream of the German democrats"). 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

He was very active in several party congresses and before WWI was unsuccessful in getting the DAP to add the words "National Socialist" to their name. ² Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

When Adolf Hitler was jailed for the Beer Hall Putsch, he went on a hunger strike to starve himself to death. Hans Knirsch talked Hitler out of his depression and convinced him to end his hunger strike. ¹ Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), a German politician who was the founder of the Third Reich (1933-1945), is widely regarded as one of the most significant and reviled leaders in world history. ... The Beer Hall Putsch occurred in the evening of Thursday, November 8 to early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923 when the nascent Nazi partys Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the Kampfbund, unsuccessfully tried to gain power in Munich...

Writings of Knirsch

• Aus der Geschichte der deutschen nationalsozialistischen Arbeiterbewegung Altösterreichs und der Tschechoslowakei, (Aussig, 1932).

References

1. Why Hitler, The Genesis of the Nazi Reich, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Praeger, Westport, CT, 1996. pg 106
2. Leftism Revisited, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Regnery Gateway, Washington, D.C., 1990. pp 147-148
3. Liberty or Equality, Von Kuenhelt-Leddihn, Christendom Press, Front Royal, VA, 1993. pg 254.